Before I moved in, she was living on cheese, crisps, sweets, chocolate, biscuits, cakes, icecream & pizza! With an occasional ready meal (the really cheap kind where all the salt, sugar and fat traffic lights are red) So I don't feel I need to see a dietician to discuss whether or not her preferred diet is 'healthy' or not!!! Oh, and she would have 6 'medicinal' sprouts once a week, so she could tell people she ate 'lots' of greens
She had a heart attack a number of years ago, so is supposed to watch fatty food etc, but wont do it.
In one way it's not worth the hassle. In another way, I know if I leave her to her own culinary devices, she will be dead within a year... So not bothering would feel a bit like signing her death warrant!
She is obsessive about the amount of kitchen equipment used, so cooking two lots of anything is not on - also obsessive about water use - I know it sounds crazy, but you have no idea of the level of control she likes...I even have to hang the mugs on the mug hooks in the right order, and it's like WW3 has started if I get them in the wrong order
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As to what happens if she eats junk food, she feels really ill, but never admits that is the cause - e.g. after eating 2 enormous bowls of clotted cream ice cream, she feels 'really sick', but does she put it down to greed? Oh no, she is suffering from an 'allergic reaction to something she ate'
Usually, she decides the reaction was due to the healthiest part of the main meal eaten just before the icecream...
On the plus side, I cooked a potato gratin last night using semi-skimmed milk instead of cream and only 3/4 the amount of cheese and she didn't notice the difference! Downside is that it is meant to serve 4 but it went in the one meal...
